Headline Writers At The Major Networks Slow To Get Obama's Message
If Obama's speech was, as I argued below, partly a call for the keepers of our political discourse to rise above themselves and do better, the headline writers at the major networks appear to be struggling to process this message.
A number of you have written in to point out some of the more absurd ones, such as this one from MSNBC...
Obama: Racial anger is "real"
...and this one from CNN...
Obama: Constitution stained by 'sin of slavery'
These, of course, are focusing on the small and petty at the expense of the largeness of the speech's message.
...but wait, take heart! Both those headlines have been changed. CNN's new one is: Obama: "We can move beyond some of our racial wounds." And MSNBC's new effort is: "Obama tackles race anger in major speech."
So it looks as if there is a bit of an effort underway at the nets to grapple with the major themes sounded here.
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